This guy is the face of the rising generation of Republican Fascism.
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Think of the hundreds of DOGE acolytes, the current members of College Republican groups, the law students still participating in the Federalist Society…these are all young adults who can never be entrusted with government positions. 3/
@heidilifeldman We should insist on a constitutional amendment barring them from government positions.
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@heidilifeldman We should insist on a constitutional amendment barring them from government positions.
@heidilifeldman And like, that should be the compromise position. As in: these folks are all guilty of treason, but we won't try and execute them for that if we can amend the constitution to exclude them from holding positions of power.
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This guy is the face of the rising generation of Republican Fascism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/kai-schwemmer-college-republicans-livestream 1/
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They all have this certain look on their face....I can't pin it down.
Disdain?
Contempt?
Superiority?
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@SharonCrockett @heidilifeldman Why, when all they have to do is what they are doing?
@CStamp @heidilifeldman Well, they can keep doing what they’re doing, but since they can’t govern effectively and have no interest in governance, eventually their beliefs and ideas will become marginalized. I’m just saying, let them experience authoritarian oligarchy, à la Russia, for instance, and let them find out how much they like it.
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@heidilifeldman We should insist on a constitutional amendment barring them from government positions.
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@heidilifeldman not even the point really. What you say, is a clue to how you think. He believes in hate because he hates. Also, he’s an insufferable coward.
Welcome to incel America!
@10tothe22 @heidilifeldman Incelica?
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They all have this certain look on their face....I can't pin it down.
Disdain?
Contempt?
Superiority?
Whatever it is,it needs to be wiped off with a smack of democracy.@ChrisHolladay @heidilifeldman Yes. I was also thinking he has a very punchable face.
I'm trying to do better though
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@heidilifeldman I think of them as a throwback to the loyalist tories who were against the revolution to separate from Great Britain. There have always been “monarchist-“ & authoritarianism-loving people in our country. They don’t believe in the basic principles of our constitution & bill of rights. Ironically, they benefit from those very same principles which they deride. If they don’t like the idea of representative self-government, then they can emigrate to Hungary.
@SharonCrockett @heidilifeldman It's appropriate. They quote those guys. In his little presentation on how we should "reboot the US government", Yarvin in fact brags about being a follower of some nobody from back then that did exactly that: argued that the upstart colonialists were all wrong and should be executed.
"Nobody else reads this guy but I do and he's right" or some shit like that.
It's exactly who they are and they know it.
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@SharonCrockett @heidilifeldman It's appropriate. They quote those guys. In his little presentation on how we should "reboot the US government", Yarvin in fact brags about being a follower of some nobody from back then that did exactly that: argued that the upstart colonialists were all wrong and should be executed.
"Nobody else reads this guy but I do and he's right" or some shit like that.
It's exactly who they are and they know it.
@crazyeddie @heidilifeldman Yes, Yarvin explicitly said that he thinks there should be some kind of monarch.
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Long after we rid ourselves of Trump, his Cabinet, Steve Miller, the Roberts Court, Mike Johnson, etc., we will still have to do the work reconstructing the U.S. as a secular, pluralist constitutional democracy. 2/
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@crazyeddie @heidilifeldman Yes, Yarvin explicitly said that he thinks there should be some kind of monarch.
@SharonCrockett @heidilifeldman They seem to want a CEO. The major players all seem to agree that USA needs a CEO.
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It is hard to maintain an appetite for political reconstruction. People want to forget awful times and awful conduct and paper over problems and conflicts. But we can’t ever have secular, pluralist constitutional democracy in the U.S. if we don’t do the work of disqualifying those who have destroyed it from government. 6/6
@heidilifeldman As a German, I would like to remind the method of Denazification, practised by the Allies after 1945: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
I could imagine that the USA need something similiar.
But please don't repeat the mistakes of history when the Americans and their allies too often whitewashed a whole bunch of former Nazis in leadership positions because it was so convenient, or because they preferred corruption and collaboration. -
If the U.S. pro-constitutional-democracy movement prevails, many now fairly anonymous Republican Fascists, especially, those now under 30, are likely to try to coverup their views and conduct during the past 10-15 years. 4/
@heidilifeldman May the judges in charge of Nuremberg 2.0 be diligent in their endeavours.
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@heidilifeldman As a German, I would like to remind the method of Denazification, practised by the Allies after 1945: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
I could imagine that the USA need something similiar.
But please don't repeat the mistakes of history when the Americans and their allies too often whitewashed a whole bunch of former Nazis in leadership positions because it was so convenient, or because they preferred corruption and collaboration.@NatureMC @heidilifeldman I think they'll do a "Gang of Four" letting Trump off the hook due to senility.
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@NatureMC @heidilifeldman I think they'll do a "Gang of Four" letting Trump off the hook due to senility.
@SCampbell Unfortunately, he alone is not the problem. He is a sock puppet who suits the others’ purposes.
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Long after we rid ourselves of Trump, his Cabinet, Steve Miller, the Roberts Court, Mike Johnson, etc., we will still have to do the work reconstructing the U.S. as a secular, pluralist constitutional democracy. 2/
@heidilifeldman need a constitutional convention. Lots to fix structurally. Firewalls to build. An expanded Supreme Court would have a hard time worrying about what “the founders” thought when the new constitution is clear and relevant.
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@SCampbell Unfortunately, he alone is not the problem. He is a sock puppet who suits the others’ purposes.
@NatureMC @heidilifeldman I agree & i hopeI'm wrong
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@tiotasram @heidilifeldman In Ireland we're laughing. But then we have proportional voting, strict limits on political donations, no gerrymandering and much else the US has yet to discover.
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@heidilifeldman As a German, I would like to remind the method of Denazification, practised by the Allies after 1945: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
I could imagine that the USA need something similiar.
But please don't repeat the mistakes of history when the Americans and their allies too often whitewashed a whole bunch of former Nazis in leadership positions because it was so convenient, or because they preferred corruption and collaboration."But nazis are good at rockets!!!!!"
Someone, 1945 -
"But nazis are good at rockets!!!!!"
Someone, 1945@mycotropic Oh yes, that one. @heidilifeldman
